Obama to bid Stewart farewell next week
President Obama is making a final “Daily Show” appearance before host Jon Stewart leaves the political comedy program after 17 years.
Obama will sit down for his final chat with Stewart on Tuesday, the White House confirmed Friday. He will likely be pitching this week’s landmark nuclear agreement with Iran.
{mosads}The president’s stop lets him court support for the pact from the show’s millennial demographic.
Stewart, 52, revealed in February he planned to leave “The Daily Show.” Comedy Central has announced that correspondent Trevor Noah will take over after Stewart’s final show on Aug. 16.
It will be Obama’s seventh appearance on the show and his third as president.
He most recently stopped by for the broadcast on Oct. 18, 2012, when he discussed his “off night” presidential debate with 2012 GOP candidate Mitt Romney.
Stewart admitted in April that he gets “incredibly depressed” watching cable news for “The Daily Show” and its related skits. The comedian said that revelation is what inspired his departure.
“These things are cyclical,” Stewart said on April 18. “You have moments of dissatisfaction, and then you’re out of it and it’s OK.”
“But the cycles become longer and more entrenched, and that’s when you realize, ‘OK, I’m on the back side of it now,’ ” he added.
Obama is no stranger to late-night talk shows.
He recently visited the “Late Show with David Letterman” as one of its final guests last May and appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live” in March.
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